{"id":15446,"date":"2024-10-14T13:48:55","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T17:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/?p=15446"},"modified":"2025-02-16T11:46:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-16T16:46:20","slug":"news-media-alliance-stands-in-support-of-the-colombian-association-of-news-medias-call-for-greater-support-for-the-free-press-in-colombia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/news-media-alliance-stands-in-support-of-the-colombian-association-of-news-medias-call-for-greater-support-for-the-free-press-in-colombia\/","title":{"rendered":"News\/Media Alliance Stands in Support of the Colombian Association of News Media\u2019s Call for Greater Support for the Free Press in Colombia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The News\/Media Alliance joins the Colombian Association of News Media (\u201cAMI\u201d) in its call to highlight the dangers the free press in Colombia face, and for its plea to the people of Colombia to \u2018demand and defend their rights to freedom of expression, the right to information, and freedom of the press.\u2019 In its\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wan-ifra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04164723\/6x32-ADN.pdf\">statement<\/a>\u00a0published on October 3, 2024, AMI reiterated the importance of journalism in keeping citizens informed and condemned the \u201crepeated and increasingly aggressive declarations and actions aimed at curtailing the freedom of the press, freedom of expression, and the right to information, and consequently limiting democracy in Colombia\u201d. The News\/Media Alliance recognizes that threats to journalists in any country, is a threat to the free press internationally, and we must collectively work together to ensure every citizen has access to information gathered by an uninhibited press.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombian Association of News Media Statement <\/strong>in English:<\/p>\n<p>The practice of journalism and the work of the media\u00a0have been subjected to repeated and increasingly aggressive declarations and actions aimed at curtailing freedom of the press, freedom of expression and the right to information, and consequently limiting democracy, at a time when indicators of press freedom, violence against journalists, and disregard for international standards of press and freedom of expression are reaching alarmingly deteriorating levels in Colombia.<\/p>\n<p>Added to this is the creation of an environment that favors political control debates on journalistic work, which are not legally viable, to introduce the convenience of regulations that institutionalize censorship in our country. Therefore,<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Colombian Association of News Media (AMI) invites Colombians to:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Demand and defend their rights to freedom of expression, the right to information, and freedom of the press.<\/li>\n<li>Reject any form of intimidation, harassment, and stigmatization of the press and pluralistic, free journalistic work, as well as all forms of censorship, intimidation, violence, and stigmatization of those who practice journalism and express opinions.<\/li>\n<li>Distance themselves from incitements to hatred, contempt, and demonization of journalistic work that questions, investigates, denounces, and expresses opinions.<\/li>\n<li>Freely choose the consumption of information and journalism according to their preference, without passions or pressures, guided by criteria of intellectual interest and curiosity to form their own judgment and make sensible and respectful decisions, based on multiple sources of information, as fundamental premises for the construction of society, nation, democracy, and peace.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>May your ideas be based on truth and independence may endure.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colombian Association of News Media Statement<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.wan-ifra.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/04164723\/6x32-ADN.pdf\">en Espa\u00f1ol<\/a> :<\/p>\n<p>El ejercicio del periodismo y la labor de los medios de informaci\u00f3n ha venido siendo objeto de reiteradas y cada vez m\u00e1s agresivas declaraciones y acciones que apuntan a coartar la libertad de prensa, de expresi\u00f3n y el derecho a la informaci\u00f3n, y en consecuencia una limitaci\u00f3n de la democracia, en un momento en el cual los indicadores de libertad de prensa, de violencia hacia periodistas y de irrespeto por los est\u00e1ndares internacionales de libertad de prensa y de expresi\u00f3n est\u00e1n registrando en Colombia alarmantes niveles de deterioro.<\/p>\n<p>A lo anterior se suma la ambientaci\u00f3n de climas que favorezcan debates de control pol\u00edtico a la labor period\u00edstica, que no son legalmente viables, para introducir la conveniencia de regulaciones que institucionalicen la censura en nuestro pa\u00eds.<\/p>\n<p>Por tanto, La Asociaci\u00f3n Colombiana de Medios de Informaci\u00f3n AMI invita a los colombianos a:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Exigir y defender sus derechos a la libertad de expresi\u00f3n, el derecho a la informaci\u00f3n y la libertad de prensa.<\/li>\n<li>Rechazar cualquier forma de intimidaci\u00f3n, acoso y estigmatizaci\u00f3n de la prensa y la labor period\u00edstica plural y libre, as\u00ed como todas las formas de censura, intimidaci\u00f3n, violencia y estigmatizaci\u00f3n de quienes hacen periodismo y opinan.<\/li>\n<li>Apartarse de las incitaciones al odio, el desprecio y la satanizaci\u00f3n del trabajo period\u00edstico que cuestiona, investiga, denuncia y opina.<\/li>\n<li>Optar de manera libre por el consumo de informaci\u00f3n y periodismo a su elecci\u00f3n, sin apasionamientos ni presiones, atendiendo criterios de inter\u00e9s y curiosidad informativa e intelectual para formar su criterio y tomar decisiones de manera sensata y respetuosa con base en m\u00faltiples fuentes de informaci\u00f3n, como presupuestos para la construcci\u00f3n de sociedad, pa\u00eds, democracia y paz. Para que sus ideas se sustenten con la verdad y la independencia perdure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Para que sus ideas se sustenten con la verdad y la independencia perdure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The News\/Media Alliance joins the Colombian Association of News Media (\u201cAMI\u201d) in its call to highlight the dangers the free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":11537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,206,486,530,180,828],"tags":[827],"class_list":["post-15446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advocacy","category-free-press","category-home","category-international-a","category-journalism","category-press-releases","tag-press-release"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsmediaalliance.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}